... KNOW YOUR RIVIERA Bikini Beach by Geoffrey Bocca: W. H. Allen. 16s, subtitled The Wicked Riviera As It was and Is this study of a region in spite of the frivolity of its jacket and title, has a. vein of sound. practical information and has been written by a man who quite evidently knows the coast well. He appreciates it even in its season of autumn rains which the residents keep as an ...

... CRICKETING ARENA The story of Melbourne Cricket Ground On November 15, 1838, five men met and drew up a document agreeing to form a cricket club to be called the Melbourne Cricket Club, sub scription one guinea. In the years that followed the club's ground grew to become one of the most famous sporting arenas in the world, and the initials M.C.C. to have as much meaning for Australians as the ...

... Willi SHAKESPEARE WAS A YOUNG MAN WHEN HE wrote this romp of a play with its amazing complexity of plot and sub-plot, its gusto and its vitality. And sensibly it is this high- spirited aspect which the director, Mr. Clifford Williams, has chosen to emphasize, with a cast mainly young in years. As our present Poet Laureate has written: We do not know what suggested the fable to Shakespeare ...

... Fun-time with les elegants ■nun ELEGANT WITS GRAND HORIZON TALS BY CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER (MICHAEL JOSEPH, 25s.) COLLECTING STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY BY LOUIS STANLEY (ALLEN, 63s.) INSIDE MR. ENDERBY BY JOSEPH KELL (HEINEM ANN, 18s.) A THEORY OF MY TIME BY SIR RICHARD REES (SECKER WARBURG, 30s.) THE GLASS-BLOWERS BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER (GOLLANCZ, 21s.) SHORT PLEASURES BY ANNE BERNAYS (SECKER WARBURG, ...

... mhi an THE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR HENRI VERNEUIL (JEAN GABIN, BERNARD BLIER, RENEE FAURE) LA STEPPA DIRECTOR ALBERTO LATTUADA (DANIELE SPAL- LONE, CHARLES VANEL, MARINA VLADY, MILAN BOSILJCIC) THREE FABLES OF LOVE DIRECTORS ALEXANDRO BLASETTI, HERVE BROMBERGER, RENE CLAIR (MONICA VITTI, SYLVA KOSCINA, CHARLES AZNAVOUR, LESLIE CARON, ROSSANO BRAZZI) ALL THE GOLD IN THE WORLD DIRECTOR RENE CLAIR ...

... ISM BUI TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD DIRECTOR ROBERT MULLIGAN (GREGORY PECK, MARY BADHAM, PHILLIP ALFORD, JOHN MEGNA) 55 DAYS AT PEKING DIRECTOR NICHOLAS RAY (CHARLTON HESTON, AVA GARDNER, DAVID NIVEN) MURDER AT THE GALLOP DIRECTOR GEORGE POLLOCK (MARGARET RUTHERFORD, ROBERT MORLEY, FLORA ROBSON, STRINGER DAVIS) AS AN EXPOSURE OF THE HORRORS TO WHICH racial prejudice can lead, To Kill a Mockingbird, ...

... I TRUST IT WILL NOT BE TAKEN AMISS IF I SUGGEST that the gentlemen who wrote the adver tisements for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane can never have seen the film-- must have assessed its nature by hearsay. It is, according to them, not recom mended for persons of nervous disposition. Why ever not? asks this essentially nervous critic-- who absolutely adored the film. Mr. Robert Aldrich, the ...

... JgM JOHN FOWLES HAS WRITTEN A PARTICULARLY haunting first novel-- The Collector-- and very rightly the first thing that catches you about the book is its admirable trompe I'oeil jacket, combining three objects-- key, butterfly, curl of hair-- and emphasizing the book's thriller-qualities. It is in fact tech nically a tour de force, narrated by two characters (in fact other people are referred ...

... Ml! l DESPITE MANY PAST ATTEMPTS TO PORTRAY AN abbreviated history of jazz, the most successful I have yet heard is Jazz in the making (Parlophone). This album covers the period from the inception of jazz recordings (1919) to 1930, with a dozen excellent and varied choices of style made under the guidance of Brian Rust. The constructive point emphasized in this collection is the parallel ...

... am fWKi IT IS THREE YEARS SINCE LONDON HAD A BEN Nicholson exhibition. Now we have two. For 10 years, until the beginning of this year, Nicholson's agents in this country were Gimpels who, at their gallery in South Molton Street, are now holding a retrospective show somewhat poignantly titled A decade with Ben Nicholson. Recently the artist, like so many of our other leading artists, went over ...

... ON THE BRADEN BEAT WITH TW3 on vacation this twenty-minute spot from ATV had its chance last Saturday night to add sizeable numbers of viewers to its regular following--it failed. The most heard criticism of TW3 was that it contained too many amateurs and lacked the professional touch. Well any one who was looking at this programme for the first time must have wished that its bit ing, brassy ...

... LONDON PALLADIUM TOP of the bill on last Sunday's production were Phil Ford and Mimi Hines making a return visit to the show. They start out by being quite funny, but then Mimi overdoes the doggy impersonations bit which strains the act at the seams. But they seemed to amuse the Palladium audi ence all right. The zany antics of Tommy Cooper were put on view again, and whatever might be said ...